mankiller, wilma pearl

A picturebook biography of Wilma Mankiller, the first female chief of the Cherokee Nation.

Explore the life and achievements of Wilma Mankiller, an activist and the first female chief of the Cherokee Indian nation.

Discusses the life and career of the first female to be chief of the Cherokee Nation.

Autobiography of the principal chief of the Cherokees, telling her personal story and the history of her people.

A biography of Wilma Mankiller, the first woman to be elected chief of the Cherokee Nation.

Examines the life of Wilma Mankiller against the backdrop of her political, historical, and cultural environment.

Describes the life of the Cherokee woman who overcame many hardships to become an activist and leader of her people, even serving as the first woman Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation.

A biography of Wilma Mankiller, the first woman elected chief of the Cherokee Nation, discussing her childhood, her family's move to California in 1956 as part of a government relocation program, her health problems, and her devotion to Native American causes.

Describes the life of the Indian activist who became the first woman Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation.

Text and photographs discuss the life and achievements of the first female chief of the Cherokee Nation, Wilma Mankiller.